I have recently set up a new Slackware 10.2 installation and compiled a custom kernel from the 2.6.14.6 source.

All is working well and I am now trying to set up iptables and realize that I omitted to build one of the required modules during the kernel compilation.

I really want to avoid replacing the kernel image with a new one as I would like to leave this alone as it is working well. Can I do the following:

From my kernel source directory:

make menuconfig (adding the missing module via the .config)
make bzImage
make modules


Then simply just manually copy the required single module object from its location in the source directory to its rightful place in /lib/modules/[subdirectory]


Is that all I would need to do other than put in the appropriate modprobe command in a suitable place later to run the module?.

Thank you.

Have you considered using `make modules_install`?

True, it would copy all of the modules you've compiled with 2.6.14.6 over to the /lib/modules/2.6.14.6/ directory and not just that one module, but you'd just be overwriting identical files, so that shouldn't be an issue.

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You have to install a new kernel image (if you prefer to use make bzimage and them copy the image stick to that method) to enable the new modules. This will only take a couple of seconds (depending on your system) assuming you didn't delete or clean up the kernel source after you built the original kernel. As long as you don't remove anything from the kernel config then you won't have to worry about the kernel not working for you.

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